All posts by Mark Fortune
Some of the Best I’ve Read This Week
This article from Neil Patel and Quick Sprout details exactly how he’s quickly building a following and fast-growth content business online. This is a great how-to for content marketing to drive inbound leads. While Neil is an expert the process can be replicated by nearly anyone. He also calls out a clear mistake in SEO […]
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Small Business Marketing, Does This Sound Familiar?
Growing your small business doesn’t have to be as hard as you make it. I love working with small business owners. Rarely is there much beating around the bush in the conversation. Time is such a precious resource that it’s critical we cut right to the chase to understand their frustrations in building, operating and […]
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Great SEO Reading This Week
This past weekend I spent some quality time in Chicago with several colleagues from the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network. Our primary topic of discussion was Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. The discussions were less about the technical ins-and-outs of SEO and more about what tools and practices can we collaborate on as a Network […]
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I Hope This is Not Your Small Business Sales Process
May I sell you something without understanding anything about your business? I understand you want to grow your business – I’m in business to help you do that. But if your small business sales process sounds like the story I’m about to share, you’re making a mistake and we should discuss… I recently received a […]
Read More »7 Questions You Always Need To Answer (and keep answering)
Quick but powerful post today – you need to read this post on the Duct Tape Marketing blog. Do you know these answers for your business? As John says, do you have these questions posted in a large way in your offices? These questions keep you centered and focused on what’s important in your business. […]
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Small Business Marketing and Selling Today
Today marks the release of John Jantsch’s new book – Duct Tape Selling. As I’m working my way through the book I find a lot of great ideas, tips, tools and resources for small business marketers, small business owners and anyone involved in growing a business. From a small business marketing perspective the chapters […]
Read More »Tips, Tools and Great Reading – May 9, 2014
As the purpose of my business is to help small business owners grow their businesses through focused systems for sales and marketing I read dozens (maybe hundreds) of articles, blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, etc. every week. Many of those are about new tools, tricks and tips to make small business life easier and […]
Read More »Welcome to Fortune Marketing Inc
So, the website is launched, business cards are printed, client meetings are happening, this is a real business now…so, what to write about in kicking off this blog… In the first weeks of being full-time in this business a couple of things have become even clearer than when I started: Small Business Owners are interested […]
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